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Linkarooni - Oh SURE, let's OPEN the borders!!! We can be like SUNNY MEXICO!! NOT!!
Crime wave hitting Mexico economy, government says
REUTERS
7:46 a.m. September 3, 2008
MEXICO CITY – Rampant kidnapping, drug murders and robberies are slowing Mexico's economy as companies avoid investing in the country, Finance Minister Agustin Carstens said.
“We estimate that this feeling of insecurity in the country takes away approximately one percentage point of growth,” the Reforma newspaper Wednesday quoted Carstens as saying.
Kidnappings in Mexico jumped almost 40 percent between 2004 and 2007, official statistics show. Mexico is one of the worst countries in the world for abductions, along with conflict zones like Iraq and Colombia.
POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
I wonder if it has anything to do with all the Mexicans that are getting deported?
“I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democrat Party has adopted our platform.” - Norman Thomas, a six time candidate for president for the Socialist Party, 1944
That is what you get when you have a corrupt central goverment. No one in the country trust them so why should any investors in other countries trust them?
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Theodore Roosevelt
If they think Mexican crime only takes away 1% in growth... It's a corrupt craphole, like all other corrupt crapholes in the world, and the only reason it's poor, is corruption -- even defective local cultures, which most of the corrupt crapholes have, can become decent states, provided they're willing to let American businesses come in and engage in trade -- and, provided the thugs in charge don't try to rob the foreign investors.
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our Fortunes, & our sacred Honor
Yeap it kind of cuts out the thrill of doing business.
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Theodore Roosevelt
